Riga

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Because it has the world’s best collection of Art Nouveau architecture.
Latvia’s early-1900s industrial boom gave birth to hundreds of Jugendstil structures, many by architect Mikhail Eisenstein. 10B Elizabeth Street (pictured) has the most impre...

When the Latvian government named him director of the National Opera in 1996, Andrejs Zagars concedes, it was something of a surprise. Two directors had come and gone in a matter of months. The theater was hemorrhaging money, and its repertoire wa...

Like many cities in central and Eastern Europe that have a long history of foreign occupation and a more recent history of dramatic transformation and independence, Riga is just getting to know itself. And, more so than most cities in the region, ...